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What did they call places where people were in shacks due to the great depressions?

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Hoovervilles

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Which new deal programs still exist today!

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Social security

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During the Great Depression unemployment reached its highest level between which two dates?

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Unemployment reached its highest between 1929 and 1933

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What is the stock market crash, bank holiday, and the dustbowl results of?

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The Great Depression

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What were three causes of the Great Depression?

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Buying on margin, overproduction, and the stock market crash.

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What increased as a result of prohibition in the United States during the 1920s?

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Bootlegging of alcohol

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To find the Harlem Renaissance.

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Amounts of time for prosperity for African-Americans in Harlem.

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Define speakeasies

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Speakeasies were an illegal bar

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Who were flappers?

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Flappers were woman who wore short dresses and smoke and drank.

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In the 1920s the revised Ku Klux Klan targeted which groups?

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African-Americans, Jews

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What was one main reason for the rest of organize crime during the 1920s?

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Prohibition

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What was the immediate cause of the outbreak of World War I?

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Immediate cause was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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In 1914, why did fighting increase rapidly from a local conflict in Europe to a world war?

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Alliance system

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What type of fighting was most characteristic of warfare in World War I?

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Trench warfare

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Why was the United States drawn into World War I?

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Unrestricted submarine warfare

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What was the purpose of Pres. Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points?

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To ensure peace after the war and prevent wars from happening in the future.

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At the beginning of World War I, Pres. Woodrow Wilson continue the traditional foreign-policy of United States by doing what?

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Remaining neutral

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What was the Zimmerman note?

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Germany sent a telegraph to Mexico to convince them to get Texas, Arizona, and California against the United States.

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World War I began with what incident?

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

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The sinking of what ship helped insight the American public against the Germans in World War I?

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The Lusitania

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What was Pres. Wilson’s peace plan for World War I called in which he called for peace without victory?

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14 points

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Many senators who opposed United States membership in the league of Nations argued that joining the league would involve a nation in what?

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Future wars

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What does “seward’s folly” refer to?

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It refers to the United States buying Alaska and people thinking there was no resources but there was resources in Alaska and it was rich in gold

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What was the main purpose of the open-door policy, announcement United States in 1899?

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The main purpose was to guarantee the rights of all nations to trade with China on an equal basis.

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What was the event that started the beginning of World War II?

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When Germany invaded Poland

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Which event brought the United States directly into World War II?

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The Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II

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It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. Some Americans use the statement to justify which foreign-policy in the 1920s and 1930s?

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Isolationism

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What was a kamikaze fighter

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A kamikaze fighter is a Japanese pilots who crashes their plane into a ship to make an explosion which kills them and the people on the ship.

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What the lend lease act do?

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The Len- Lease act allowed the United States to lend or lease supplies to Britain and other nations fighting the Nazis

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Describe the island hopping strategy.

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The island hopping strategy was a technique when the Marines would go to different islands every couple days to confuse Japan and defeat them during World War II.

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What did the allies do on D-Day?

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Invaded Normandy France

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During World War II this poster was used primarily to what?

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Gain financial support for the war.

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During World War II, how did many women experience a change in the role on the homefront?

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Woman now worked jobs formerly held by men.

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Which event ended the Great Depression?

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Beginning of World War II

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In America, which World War II action was later determined to be a violation of civil liberties?

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Interment of Japanese-Americans in internment camps.

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Which situation was a direct result of the Holocaust and other atrocities committed by the nazis during World War II?

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War crime trials in Nuremberg.

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What was the reason Pres. Harry Truman decided to use atomic weapons against Japan?

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To end the war while limiting the loss of American lives.

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What did the war crime trials of Germany and Japanese military officials following World War II establish?

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Individuals can be held responsible for wartime atrocities against civilians.

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Pres. Harry Truman’s decision to use atomic bombs against Japan was primarily based on his belief that invading Japan would result in what?

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An invasion of Japan would result in American excessive casualties

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Atomic bombs were dropped during World War II on which two Japanese cities?

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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During World War II, how did the federal government react to shortages of various goods?

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Rationing certain products

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League of Nations

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Result of the Paris peace conference goal was to settle international disputes and bring peace.

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United Nations

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Goal was to prevent another conflict like world war 2 took place after world war 2

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Which event led to the passage of laws the created safer working conditions?

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Triangle fire

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What did the 1906 publication of Upton Sinclair book the jungle help to expose?

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The conditions immigrant workers and the Chicago meat lacking industry.

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What was a major goal of the reformers during the progressive era?

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Opposition to corruption

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What does the cartoon illustrate Pres. Theodore Roosevelt’s attempt to do?

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He established antitrust laws to take powers away from big businesses, leaders, such as John G Rockefeller

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Which president is known as it’s trustbuster?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Which nations of the United States go to war against at the end of the 20th century in which most of the fighting took place in Cuba?

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Spain

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